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Acquia pakt uit op DrupalCon [16 maart 2012]

DRUPALCON DENVER, CO - March 16, 2012 -Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, is a Diamond sponsor at DrupalCon, the official and largest international gathering of Drupal developers and users, which will be held at the Colorado Convention Center, March 19-23, 2012.

Drupal has seen tremendous growth since Drupal creator, Acquia co-founder and DrupalCon keynote speaker Dries Buytaert open-sourced the project in 2001. It now powers more than a million websites and its community numbers more than 775,000 developers and users in 228 countries.

Members of Acquia's engineering, professional services, support and marketing teams will participate in nearly two dozen sessions, highlighting customer examples and providing instructional sessions for attendees. In addition, Acquia is hosting a lunch meeting of Higher Ed Drupal users on Wednesday, March 21 from 12 pm - 1 pm CST. Attendees from leading Higher Ed institutions, including the University of Iowa, Bentley University, UCLA, University of North British Columbia, and the University of Waterloo, will share their Drupal knowledge and experience.

Acquia's sessions at Drupal range from customer panels to advanced technical sessions, a few of which are listed below:

Competing with Giants: How to Win with Drupal vs Proprietary Alternatives - Drupal has become a serious player in the enterprise market where the technical selection process is intensive and industry analysts and peers influence decision-making. Bryan House from Acquia shares his experiences discussing Drupal with the analyst community and with senior executives, and lessons learned during the technical selection process.

Migration: Smoothing the Move - A technical session on how to migrate content into Drupal from external content and data systems. This session will cover where content migration fits alongside the building of a new Drupal site, how to make sure nothing gets lost on the way, and making the final launch as smooth as possible

About Acquia(TM), the enterprise guide to Drupal
Acquia empowers enterprises with the open-source social publishing system Drupal. Co-founded by Drupal's creator in 2007, Acquia helps customers manage their growth and scale their online properties with confidence. Acquia's products, cloud infrastructure, and support enable companies to realize the full power of Drupal while minimizing risk, as it has done for nearly 2,000 enterprise customers including Twitter, Al Jazeera, Turner, Intuit, World Economic Forum, Stanford University, Mercedes-Benz and NPR. See who's using Drupal at http://www.drupalshowcase.com , and for more information please visit www.acquia.com or call 888-9-ACQUIA.